If I wanted to be controversial, as a sociologist, I might say that serial murder is “functional” for society. However, a less inflammatory way to say the same thing is that serial murder can be ...

Our eyes, gestures, and tone bring us together in a more profound way than words alone. It’s why we look hopefully toward the return of in-person, face-to-face connection. Emile Durkheim Source: ...

The anomie and differential association approaches to deviance and their reformulations present deviance as the product of the movement of actors across the moral boundaries of a particular social ...

Bensman and Gerver's (1964) theory of structural deviance is employed as a general framework for examining the functional indispensability of the fist-fight in icehockey. Qualitative materials ...